Today's consumerism is everything. Everything based on our choices. We can easily imitate people we want to be which simply based on consumerism. This banality of society uses to impose uniformity in taste. Narcissism carried to excess. People always want to be the ones who they think are better. Primordial narcissism has now transformed into a neurotic and media-hyped narcissism and becomes self-hatred. Yet, that's all we do. We consume everything we want, and hate ourselves.
Another indie-pop band from Labrador, Sweden.
They just sound very nice, very pop.
So far, had released two albums, Sambassadeur and Migration.
I think both sound very good, but you can tell that they are better in the second album, Migration. Full of good pop sounds, especially covered a song, called Lady (Falling In Love) originally by Dennis Wilson from The Beach Boys. Myspace
Paul: Kill a man and you're a murderer. Kill thousands and you're a conqueror. Kill everyone and you're a god. Elisabeth: I don't think God exists.
We control our thoughts which mean nothing, and not our emotions which mean everything.
Paul: To have a conscience is to be open to the world. Paul: To be faithful is to act as if time didn't exist. Paul: Wisdom would be to see life, truly see it. That would be wisdom.
Masculin Féminin, by Godard. Awesome film! From this film, I see insanity of modern society. Even this is a quite funny film, it's got a hell of insights.
這張專輯，不仔細聽，妳不會覺得好聽。 仔細聽，這張真是好聽。我想這只是我的感覺而已。 總之，最近聽這張聽很兇。 Julie Doiron 沒有漂亮的聲音，她的音樂也沒有相當完整。可是相對得出來的聲音，很直接，很raw，很親密。基本上我對她並不熟，我是從這張新專輯才認識她的。像是主打歌Consolation Prize，一陣厚厚的吉他音牆，流行的曲調，算是她比較raw的一面。而其他的歌像是，The Life Of Dreams，Nice To Come Home，Glad To Be Alive，都是只有簡單的吉他伴奏，Julie 直接對著＂你＂唱的方式，很親密。不過這很直接的表現方法，我很喜歡。而且我覺得她寫的歌詞也很有正面的力量。哈！
I've already seen this film last year in the cinema. Back then, I knew nothing about Dylan except for knowing that he was famous in rock music. So, as I was watching the film, I was just confused about what the film was all about. They just seemed very strange and crazy to me. I guess it does for a lot of people, even for Dylan's fans, and I'm not a Dylan fan. Towards the end of the film, I finally realised that Bob Dylan was divided and embodied into six frictional characters. At that point, I thought to myself "what a great idea!" Too bad that I've already missed too many details in the film.
I wake and I'm one person, when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else. I don't know who I am most of the time.
So a year later, I listen to more music, watch more films and know a bit more about Bob Dylan from the music course I took. I borrowed the movie and watched again, twice actually. I watched the film again with director's commentary right after. It grew on me when I watched again. I think it's interesting to get more insides of the films that I like.
People actually think I have some kind of a fantastic imagination. It gets very lonesome.
This film really challenged people, unlike conventional biopic movies. Just like what Bob Dylan did going electric from folk. The concept is perfect. The film touches so many aspects of Dylan's (our) life on love, religion, politics, family, friends, status quo, and a lot more. As for a complex man like him, I think the film covered the most it could. Among the star casts, I was fond of Charlotte Gainsbourg's role. She was special in this film. I also like Ben Whishaw's role very much. After all, every actors were all great, making this film a masterpiece.
I accept chaos. I don't know whether it accepts me.
But what really differentiated this film from the rests, is the way the film represented. Director Todd Haynes really had a vision and did a wonderful job. I would said it is an experimental film, yet a very good experimental film. He played around a lot with movie techiques and these techiques were not new. He really took some influences from Godard and Fellini, and just threw them into the film. The film at first may seemed chaotic, but it's actually not, just excessive. It carried too many ideas and stories. For me, this is not just a tribute to Dylan's life and music, but also to other great directors and poets.
It's like you got yesterday, today and tomorrow, all in the same room. There's no telling what can happen.
Seven simple rules of going into hiding:
never trust a cop in a raincoat.
beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and quick to sway.
if asked if you care about the world's problems, look deep into the eyes of he who asks, he will never ask you again.
never give your real name.
if ever asked to look at yourself, don't.
never do anything the person standing in front of you cannot understand.
never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.
Today's consumerism is everything.
Another indie-pop band from Labrador, Sweden.
Masculin Féminin, by Godard. Awesome film!
這張專輯，不仔細聽，妳不會覺得好聽。
這是我最近看過最怪的一部電影。
what a sensational film!
